Covid-19
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • June 16, 2020
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In the 1960s, the African-American activist Malcolm X launched a lobbying campaign to “internationalize” the civil rights movement in the United States by calling on the United Nations to focus on the lives of black Americans through a human-rights…
- Categories: Covid-19, Human Rights
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- Fiona Shukri
- • June 15, 2020
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Already struggling with a surging Covid-19 pandemic, United Nations health agencies must now face the possible abdication of the United States’ leading role in fighting polio — just as the world gets tantalizingly close to eradicating it for good….
- Categories: Covid-19, US-UN Relations
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- Isabel Saint Malo
- • June 11, 2020
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PANAMA CITY, Panama — March 2 marked the beginning of the school year in Panama, when about a million students, a quarter of the population, headed for school. One week had passed when the first Covid-19 case was reported,…
- Categories: Covid-19, Latin America, SDGs
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- Barbara Crossette
- • June 10, 2020
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With Joseph Biden taking an unassailable lead by June 7 as the Democratic Party’s choice for president of the United States, many Americans foresee a desperate, ugly political campaign for re-election by Donald Trump coming. The magnitude of his…
- Categories: Covid-19, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Mona Ali Khalil
- • June 9, 2020
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As the world knows, George Floyd, a black man suspected of passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a store in Minneapolis, Minn., was killed on May 25 by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer. Chauvin had pressed his knee…
- Categories: Covid-19, Human Rights, Secretary-General
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • June 8, 2020
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VIENNA — The International Atomic Energy Agency issued an alarming report on June 5, voicing “serious concern” over Iran’s refusal to allow the agency’s inspectors to investigate two sites where the country is suspected of having conducted undeclared nuclear…
- Categories: Covid-19, Nuclear Disarmament, Security Council, US-UN Relations
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- Georgios Kostakos  and Harris Gleckman
- • June 4, 2020
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Covid-19 has pretty much shut down important negotiations at the United Nations, ranging from climate change to biodiversity. The General Assembly has not been able to meet as a group physically, but Security Council meetings have migrated online, with…
- Categories: Covid-19
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • June 3, 2020
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In New York City, protesters swarm the roadway portion of the Brooklyn Bridge, heading from the City Hall area of lower Manhattan into Brooklyn. The crowd stopped incoming traffic, but there was no violence, May 30, 2020. JOHN PENNEY…
- Categories: Covid-19, General Assembly, Human Rights, Secretary-General, Security Council
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- Barbara Crossette
- • May 29, 2020
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Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in dealing with the Covid-19 crisis, the reputation of the agency has been damaged far less than…
- Categories: Covid-19, US-UN Relations
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- Frank Vogl
- • May 28, 2020
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Fears abound as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the poorer nations of the world, not only about appalling levels of death and economic depression but also about criminal opportunism. Never before have agencies in the United Nations system, the…
- Categories: Covid-19
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- Niemat Ahmadi
- • May 27, 2020
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The world plans to withdraw peacekeepers from Darfur by the end of this year. Without an alternative in place, this premature departure is a disaster in the making for the millions of Darfuris it will leave behind. While the…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, Security Council, UN Peacekeeping
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- Antonio Menendez de Zubillaga
- • May 25, 2020
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LILONGWE, Malawi — Ever since an expatriate tourism adviser labeled Malawi the “warm heart of Africa” in the 1970s, Malawians have worn the title proudly, sparing no effort to welcome visitors with open arms. My family and I felt…
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- Stéphanie Fillion
- • May 21, 2020
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Exactly one year ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling on Britain to return the Chagos Archipelago, a cluster of islands in the middle of the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, an island-nation off the southeast coast…
- Categories: Africa, Covid-19, General Assembly, US Foreign Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • May 20, 2020
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The Trump administration may be bound and determined to extend a tight global arms embargo on Iran, but it still can’t send a straight message about how it will do so through the United Nations Security Council. The embargo,…
- Categories: Covid-19, Security Council, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
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- Stephanie Liechtenstein
- • May 19, 2020
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On April 14, the US Mission to the International Organizations in Vienna issued a press release declaring that the State Department had contributed $11 million to a project fighting Covid-19 by the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA. The…
- Categories: Covid-19, Health and Population, US-UN Relations
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